Ostyak
Americannoun
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Ostyaks,
plural
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Ostyak
plural
noun
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a member of an Ugrian people living in NW Siberia E of the Urals
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the language of this people, belonging to the Finno-Ugric family: related to Hungarian
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Etymology
Origin of Ostyak
1715–25; < Russian ostyák originally a Khanty, later used for the Samoyedic Selkup, the Ket, and certain Mansi groups < Khanty ās-jax, plural of as-xo one living on the Ob, equivalent to Ās the river Ob + xo man
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He is very glad when he can shoot a sable; because the Russian emperor requires every Ostyak to give him yearly, as a tax, the skins of two sables.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
The Samoyed tent is commonly covered with reindeer skins, the Ostyak tent with birch bark.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
The reindeer, after he is dead, is of as much use to the Ostyak, as when he was alive; for his skin is his master's clothing.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
The Ostyak wears a great-coat made of the skin of a white deer; this gives him the appearance of a great white bear.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
The Ostyak lets no part of his body be uncovered but just his face, and that would freeze, if he were not to rub it often with his hands, covered over with hairy reindeer gloves.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
He wishes the Ostyaks to belong to the Greek church, and he has tried to bribe them with presents of cloth to be baptized; and a good many have been baptized.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
To keep food out of their way, the Ostyaks build store-houses, on the tops of very high poles.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
ERMAN, on the fat-tailed Kirghisian sheep. -on the dogs of the Ostyaks.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
These very same words have been applied to the Ostyaks, the Samoyedes, the Eskimos, the Dyaks, the Aleuts, the Papuans, and so on, by the highest authorities.
From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Edward Carpenter
These very same words have been applied to the Ostyaks, the Samoyedes, the Eskimos, the Dayaks, the Aleoutes, the Papuas, and so on, by the highest authorities.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
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